New Years Weekend

This was one of the best weekend the hubs and i have had in a while, what a great way to start a new year! I mean we have had some great times with family and friends recently but this weekend was the first weekend in i can't remember how long where we had the whole weekend to ourselves and were able to do things we enjoyed and get some stuff done around the house, wait maybe those are the same thing. anyway here is how it went down... the weekend started when i got off work on thursday at 1pm, saweet! i did some clothes shopping and found a lot of stuff and only spend $25 thanks to coupons and gift cards! Friday the hubs had to work in Nashville so i cleaned, cleaned and cleaned some more, not like get down and scrub anything, but i cleaned out cabinets and drawers and purged. It. felt. amazing. Friday night we ate some pot roast i cooked up.  Carrots, onions, and potatoes cooking in some yummy, fall of the bone meat.  

Saturday i got up and early and headed to Goodwill for half off day. My favorite day of the month. I found a few things and made my way to the counter. As i'm giving the cashier my wonderful purchases i say "is today half off day" i mean i knew it was, but there did not seem to be enough people in the store for half off day. He said "No that's next saturday." WHAAAAAAAAAT! is what i wanted to say. but instead i said, "Man i wish i had known before i found all this fabulous stuff."  To which he replied, "well, i'll give it to you half off anyway, and then you can come back next saturday and get more stuff."  How awesome is that! So here is what i got. For $5! i love landscapes and the green and yellow tones in this one were beautiful!
If you look on the top right of the frame some of the gold is coming off so i spent hours peeling all the gold off so i could sand and repaint it. It was the bronze color we used on our hinges (on our doors) that didn't turn out too great so i painted it Krylon's Caramel Latte. 
This is just the before picture. I haven't decided where to put it yet. 

So i came home and started working on some projects. I finished my desk! Here is the before and after.

It will look a lot better once that purple wall is gone. 

I also finished my coffee table. I am always buying up the oops paint from home depot and lows. This brown was $2.50 a while back. I knew it would come in handy. I couldn't decide on a color so i went with brown to match our couches and bench under the window. 

I forgot to take a picture with our rug in the living room, i'll do that later. 

It was so nice to get those done. It was a long process of sanding, priming painting and staining so i'll blog about that later.
So saturday was just a long day of projects, movies, and the hubs made some delicious chimichanga's. They were so good we ate them again on Sunday :) Sunday we spent the day at church, climbing and doing a little change up in the kitchen...

I have been loving the open cabinet look lately so we took the doors off some of the cabinets in our kitchen. I love it. It makes it feel so much more open. I know people always say "but then you'll have to keep your cabinets clean." Well i kinda like "having" to keep them clean and it's only our dishes and cookbooks so it shouldn't be that hard. We'll see :)

Here is the before and after.

I love changing things around my house, if you've followed my blog for any amount of time you have probably figured that out already.  
Well after this long weekend i'm gonna get ready to start another work week. I'll do a more detailed post about the furniture later. 


P.S. Let me know what you think about the open cabinets. Yay or Ney??